Shine A Light

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

These boys can dance!...

Spike Lee's documentary When The Levee's Brokeis a challenging, critical, thought provoking, personal and national response to Hurricane Katrina and it's disastrous aftermath.

Despite the horrific events that unfolded during this tragedy Spike Lee is still able to find a part of the story with moments of hope, fun, optimism and down right coolness!....and this scene gives a much needed bit of joy in a tale that otherwise deals with serious problems that need to addressed and so far seem to be neglected...

...but on the plus side...these boys can really dance!!!

...another great thing outta New Orleans (other than old men getting their awesome groove on in a funeral march) is the one and only Hot 8 Brass Band...memembers of the band feature heavily in When The Levee's Broke...and heres what they do best...

here's another Hot 8 sample..the quality isn't great, but the gig was gooood...take it from me...

One last New Orleans/Katrina related thing....Black Lips are one of the best punk/garage rock/indie (whatever-u-wanna-call-it) bands to come out of the US in time...i think there from Florida, but they wrote a song inspired by Katrina...its typical of their style, sporadic, scratchy, scatty guitars, fast tempo, catchy riffs, and vocals with a snarl, an arrogance and a 'give a fuck?' attitude....enjoy....

'O Katrina! why u gotta be mean...!'

if you ever get a chance check these guys out live...you will have fun!.....(that goes for both bands!)

so, a massive storm can fuck up your city and your government can fuck you up all over again afterwards, but here's three pieces of proof that the good stuff will just keep coming back...harder than any storm and with more power than any (idiot) politician!